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Want to Thrive in Today’s High-Speed, Hypercompetitive Business World? Teach Your Management Team to Iterate.

Strategy Driven

When boiled down to its essence, management is a system of managers, operating in concert, constantly adjusting resources based on new information coming in to keep the business on target. It involves coordinating complex efforts, enabling group work and constantly asking the question, “What’s the next most intelligent step from here?”.

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U.S. Manufacturers Are Hurting Themselves by the Way They Hire

Harvard Business Review

Given the hypercompetitive nature of global manufacturing, it wouldn't take much to kill this momentum and put the U.S. Robots and computer-operated tools are everywhere. The United States is at a dangerous juncture: Manufacturing jobs are on the rise, but the growth is still fragile. back to where it was a couple of years ago.

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Change the World and Get to Bed by 10:00

Harvard Business Review

Those include, for example, the entertainment industry: What would it take to get scriptwriters and directors to stop portraying people operating on no sleep as models of machismo and dedication? A key piece of advice in that playbook would be to influence the influencers. Sense of Involvement.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

The Future of Operations. The latter are troublesome because the knowledge base and skills required to operate in the new realm are so fundamentally different. Managers constantly try to fit new market needs to existing processes and routines. Sometimes they are a fit, but often they are not. Insight Center. Sponsored by GE Corporate.

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How Successful Virtual Teams Collaborate

Harvard Business Review

One solution is to use a flexible, fluid team structure that consists of three tiers : a core, an operational level, and an outer network. This trend has made true collaboration increasingly difficult to achieve. The core consists of individuals responsible for strategy and important decisions.

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We All Work at Enron Now

Harvard Business Review

You know how your mobile operator manages to slyly slide hidden costs past you — and the service you get is patchy and unpredictable? It's not just that in a hypercompetitive world, yesterday's competitive edges are as dull as a plastic spork. UK Uncut is self-organizing demonstrations against mobile operators and banks.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

Long before becoming CEO, in 2016, he was searching for new growth in the hypercompetitive travel reservations market, coming across a pair of small European startups with a business model opposite to Priceline’s in two key ways: Instead of taking an up-front 25% commission on a hotel reservation, the startups charged only 15% after check-out.